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Machine: A White Space Novel

by Elizabeth Bear · 5 Oct 2020 · 537pp · 146,610 words

figure out how to feed a hundred thousand sentients on limited rations for an indeterminate time. I hope somebody on this bubble knows something about hydroponic farming. Or the crystalline ice-creature equivalent.” * * * Waiting in hospitals is the worst thing. It doesn’t get any better when you’re a doctor with

Wool Omnibus Edition

by Hugh Howey · 5 Jun 2012

place long enough for her to catch and remember a name, a normally keen skill of hers. She wondered, as she and Marnes entered the hydroponic farms, if the porters made it home every night to be with their families. Or did they even have families? Were they like the priests? She

Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future

by Alan Weisman · 21 Apr 2025 · 599pp · 149,014 words

world. The initial 15.5-acre prototype in Busan’s protected harbor would be three triangular platforms. One would be a research center, including a hydroponic farm. The second would accommodate visitors, with an eco-lodge hotel, eco-retail outlets, and an organic restaurant at the waterfront’s edge—possible, they said

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy

by Philip Coggan · 6 Feb 2020 · 524pp · 155,947 words

in its employees; hence the willingness of my guide, Caroline Katsiroubas, to drive through a blizzard to show me round on such a dismal day. Hydroponic farms are a mini-wonder of the world. Although not quite the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Hanging Gardens of Boston are still a technological marvel

What We Need to Do Now: A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth

by Chris Goodall · 30 Jan 2020 · 154pp · 48,340 words

provide high levels of reddish growing light and nutrient-filled water flowing through the trays, the plants can be grown quickly, without weeding or pesticides. ‘Hydroponic’ farms like this are, of course, completely unaffected by the weather on the ground above them, and produce can be grown throughout the year. The salad

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction

by Adrian Hon · 5 Oct 2020 · 340pp · 101,675 words

years, but their living conditions were without doubt far superior to those faced by explorers from previous centuries. They had fresh food provided by a hydroponic farm, a centrifuge so they could exercise and sleep under gravity (thus avoiding muscle atrophy and bone density loss), constant video communication with their loved ones

Frommer's Caribbean 2010

by Christina Paulette Colón, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince and John Marino · 2 Jan 1989

whitewashed villas crowned by blue domes and surrounded by lush tropical foliage, it seems straight out of M ykonos. The resort offers the first-ever hydroponic farm and the only full-ser vice r esort spa in Anguilla. ( Their milk-and-honeyalmond scrub is the most fantastic we’ve experienced.) It also

Infinite Detail

by Tim Maughan · 1 Apr 2019 · 303pp · 81,071 words

in and force it into his mouth. He can’t remember the last time he saw rice. He knows where the spices are from—the hydroponic farms in the old buildings at the back of the Croft, the ones left over from before, the ones the old hippies used to grow their

Wireless

by Charles Stross · 7 Jul 2009

missiles. A squadron of black diamond-shaped fighters from the Skunk Works, said to be invisible to radar, patrols the empty skies of XK-Masada. Hydroponic farms and empty barracks and apartment blocks await the senators and congressmen and their families and thousands of support personnel. In event of war they’ll

Demystifying Smart Cities

by Anders Lisdorf

idea and also increase the use of vertical gardens, which will also help clean the air and give a more pleasant ambience of the city. Hydroponic farms are already now being built out and could produce a significant amount of fresh produce close to the people of the city that need it